OpenAI and Anthropic endorsed an employee petition calling for the government to 'deliberately pace' frontier AI development. Neither company has slowed down. The endorsement is not a brake — it's a buffer.
The Commerce Department cleared OpenAI's GPT-5.6 for public release through private meetings with company staff — before the administration's own AI safety standards have been written. That process is now the template.
OpenAI detected the Tumbler Ridge shooter's account, suspended it, and then decided — by its own internal standard, reviewed by no one — that the threat didn't require a call to police. Eight people died. The real failure isn't the calibration. It's that a private company was making this call at all